Explain Everything has long been an incredible app for screen casting websites on iOS. If you wanted to create a video of how to do something using an iPad, EE was the way to go. You have been able to insert pictures or websites and the app would record the screen and your voice while you annotated on top of the content. Recent updates added the same annotation capabilities on top of video. Now you can further explain what is happening in that YouTube video by drawing directly on the video.

This is of course in addition to the wonderful whiteboard features of Explain Everything. This app has always allowed you to start with a blank canvas and draw on the whiteboard while simultaneously recording your audio. This made it for a great tool to quickly and easily create how to videos so that you could, well, explain everything.

Explain everything is particularly useful in creating demonstration videos. You can use the built-in video recorder to record an experiment, for instance, and then annotate on top of the video you just created. Of course this also plies to still pictures that can be taken with the camera as well.

Beginning late last year, the Explain Everything team took the app to the next level. As it had previously existed Explain Everything became Explain Everything Interactive and a new app was launched that is known as Explain Everything Collaborative. And it should be no surprise that this version adds real time collaboration. It even works across platforms. The app is available for iOS as well as Android and Chrome book. There is even a version for Windows! Along with this update to the app comes a new web based Explain Everything Discover portal that allows you to upload your creations to either public or private folders as well as download content created by other users.

All of these changes bring about a new pricing model for the app. Explain Everything now works on a subscription model. There is a free version however it only allows you to view collaborative sessions. In the Premium version, the collaboration features are available and you revive 2 GB of content storage. The Premium account is a $4.99 per month subscription. However, Explain Everything offers a EDU group account that provides all of the Premium features for up to 30 users and 5GB of content storage. Additionally, the licenses for these users can be centrally controlled including revoking and reassigning the licenses. All of this for just $7.99 a month. Both of the premium options allow for annual billing with the equivalent of two free months.

You can start with the free version which includes the premium features for 30 days to let you decide, but since the EDU Group account could be used for an entire school or even just a group of teacher friends, I suspect that this will be the way most of you will go. Think about it, you and two friends could split the annual $80 subscription at roughly $27 each. You would each get an account for yourself and nine accounts for classroom iPads!

By the way, if you are happy with the features of Explain Everything Interactive (without the collaboration features) grab it now because they will be raising the price beginning April 15th.

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